My friend I put the tree up with had invited me to a Lighting of the Tree on Sunday afternoon. She had also invited a few of her friends in and had spent all week decorating her apartment with Christmas

My helper friend’s birch bark stars he taught himself to make with wife’s help Wednesday evening I spent making wreaths with my helper friend and his wife for the doors of Old Deerfield village. They have

Each year I make one of these delicious smelling pomanders. The materials are simple. The very nicest, biggest orange you can find, whole cloves, and string or ribbon. I select the cloves with the longest,

Wednesday morning at 2:30AM or thereabouts he left to go deepsea fishing. He would hopefully get more pollock for the hens and some other varieties for us for the freezer. This meant I had to do farm chores

I knew it wasn’t good when I opened the door INSIDE the addition and found this on Tuesday morning. We’d had some wind but I’d no idea it would blow into the addition like it did. Fortunately, I had placed

It took forever for this storm to start on Sunday. I think it was around 3PM we saw the first flurries. But it was going strong by 4PM. When I looked out on Monday morning, it had all but stopped. By the

With no big tree to decorate this year, I am making the most of the few decorations I have for around the house. Sunday was to be a stormy day, so I put on my Christmas music and got down to making the

Saturday I spent the day putting up lights and outside decorations before the storm hits. We’d lit a fire in the morning to take the chill off but the sun came out and it kept the house warm until about

Christmas cactus covered with buds, as it often is all year round I’ve never done shopping on Black Friday. That day is reserved for putting up my Christmas trees. This year, there won’t be a tree inside,